This scene was made for a contest named "Mechanical Insect". I got an idea to create a new scale-model from a concept based on Leonardo’s research and here is the story:

In the fifteenth century, the wish to fly like the birds forced Leonardo to design flying machines. He has a lot of notebooks containing 7000 pages where we can find some drafts with his imagination about those… But we never ever find out about what his first model was. Maybe he built one, or not; it would be a secret forever. But now let me present to you my mysterious butterfly, which may have been his first one…

The model was created in 3dsMAX, polygonal modeling, rendered with Vray. All the textures in Photoshop.

Hope you like it.

pierrebixquert

01-31-2005, 04:53 PM

Very nice Modeling and texture.:thumbsup: ***** for you.. :)

Pierre

JQuest

01-31-2005, 05:23 PM

Where could it be....? Yeah I found http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon4.gif Set as background. Awesome m8. I really like the model and the concept was also great. No critics. http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

JQ

Phlipee

01-31-2005, 05:25 PM

Wow man, Just Wow! i like it, very cool concept

mlpol79

01-31-2005, 06:03 PM

Beautiful image one of my favorite peaces I give you 5 stars for this one, Great job

B3AND1P

01-31-2005, 06:19 PM

Great texturing! I think you have done a wonderful job, keep up the good work.

Lil'Stop

01-31-2005, 07:36 PM

Very Nice image

williamwonka

01-31-2005, 07:59 PM

I love eveything about it! Texturing.. lighting... composition.. models.. all well done!

MoMaZa

01-31-2005, 10:11 PM

Amazing Render Dude
And Lighting
GOngrats

ernia

01-31-2005, 11:36 PM

Just fantabulous! Love the subject and I love the lighting. Nice detail on the sowed wing. Very good job "Leo". I'm a little bit distracted by the empty table in the upper right, though. I want something to be there.

ernia

SUN

01-31-2005, 11:37 PM

:thumbsup: VERY nice work :thumbsup:

ghostent

01-31-2005, 11:37 PM

Excellent piece of work.I wish it could have been a larger creature or maybe just a high rez version to look at it better.But still a great piece of work.:thumbsup:

Cool idea and a great finish! The only thing I dislike is the background you can actually see in the top right corner - wooden table or something... But other than that = superb. http://www.cgtalk.com/images/rating/rating_4.gif from me man :thumbsup:

Joggle

02-01-2005, 07:39 AM

I wish, Leonardo da Vinci could see this!!

great - i like your idea, the composition and the final result very much!!

greez

Jameslsy

02-01-2005, 07:55 AM

That is very awesome!

Congrats!

BGX

02-01-2005, 09:00 AM

Wow! I realy like this piece! What contest was it for?

The contest was in Hungary more than 1 year ago hosted by Design21 magazine.
other (http://href.hu/x/74y) competitors

And the topic was about "Mechanical Insect" design - presented in its "functional" environment.

Great modelling work for this creation, i'm impressed by the details of the model. One excellent work:thumbsup: .

Georges.:)

chikega

02-01-2005, 10:16 PM

Excellent detail throughout - one humble criticism would be of the broken pencil, wouldn't it be more jaggedy with long slender splinters. The fragments look like ceramic fragments. :)

rswanson

02-01-2005, 10:44 PM

Fantastic, just wonderful. Technically this piece is awesome but the subject is the best part. It has so much style and character that the mind makes up a story after just a single glance. I really can't applaud your concept any more!

Zarathustra

02-01-2005, 11:21 PM

Exquisite! I love this. Is this really based on one of his drawings?
I think yours is the best entry in that link. There might be more detailed models, but yours is a completely worked out scene. Really nice.

As far as the broken pencil, I doubt if there were pencils in Leonardo's time. Pieces of graphite, lead, copper and silver were bound by hand in some sort of holder and used for fine line drawing. as long as we're getting technical, Chikega:D

BGX

02-02-2005, 09:15 AM

Exquisite! I love this. Is this really based on one of his drawings?
I think yours is the best entry in that link. There might be more detailed models, but yours is a completely worked out scene. Really nice.

As far as the broken pencil, I doubt if there were pencils in Leonardo's time. Pieces of graphite, lead, copper and silver were bound by hand in some sort of holder and used for fine line drawing. as long as we're getting technical, Chikega:D

Many thanks for your reply and you critic!

Only the style from Leonardo but the concept and the story is mine. I do not think so if he had a model like this or who knows ? As I told you it was made for a contest…
Leonardo worked with red chalk and I tired to modeling that but you are right maybe the 6 sided shape was not too smart idea.

deathblood

02-02-2005, 09:23 AM

I like it..where can I buy it??http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.giffor you

kkk007

02-02-2005, 09:57 AM

Wow!How cool!

freka01

02-02-2005, 10:10 AM

Nice image.

Sanskrit

02-02-2005, 10:40 AM

:) Very very kool concept . Your attention to detail is fabulous . Look forward to see more of your work soon . Cheers :thumbsup:

Beautifully modeling, texture and lighting.
I like it :eek: :eek: :eek:

Kaan88

02-05-2005, 12:32 PM

very nice work:applause:

Skyraider3D

02-07-2005, 08:40 AM

Very nice style. Maybe add a little bloom though, to make the lighting look even softer :)

Jess Feidt

02-07-2005, 10:23 AM

Your clothe and stitching are great. Very nice attention to detail with your model. Might have been nice to see a couple objects scattered in the background.

MITRICH

02-07-2005, 02:52 PM

Very, very nice :-)

Larkord

02-07-2005, 05:12 PM

Really cool stuff.

Star-searcher-2103

02-08-2005, 01:34 AM

Amazing Work! :bowdown:

cadavatar

02-08-2005, 01:43 AM

Leonardo DaVinci was one of those rare visionaries who saw hundreds of years into the future with his ideas.

Even choosing his work or ideas as a basis for doing something in CG deserves some merit.

The image you posted is beautifully detail-oriented.

Piledriver2004

02-08-2005, 02:56 PM

Great job, I like it!

AlexMateo

02-08-2005, 11:24 PM

I love the texure, great work, how many hours? :thumbsup:

Sorry my english is broken :rolleyes:

penartist26

02-09-2005, 06:46 AM

very impressive artwork! ahhh great +9

DimitrisK

02-09-2005, 09:50 AM

Great idea, Great visualization. I am a Davinci fun too (like many many others ofcourse) and I think your machine looks very Davincisque (I just made this mord up...). Anyway, keep up the good work, and read the Davince Code. Very inspiring book

trafamwa

02-09-2005, 11:29 AM

Hi man I love Butterfly but now I am afraid :scream:
nice cut on the wing

ironic440

02-09-2005, 03:28 PM

5 stars from me.:thumbsup:

umnifarious184

02-10-2005, 01:26 AM

cool man... that looks real good... textures are awsome.

bzouchir

02-10-2005, 01:51 AM

wow! nice work!what amazes me is u're passion for detail ;)!!

I don't think even Davinci thought of that much detail!

great job!

chino

02-10-2005, 02:51 AM

create...imaginate

excellent it is

seccad

02-10-2005, 07:07 AM

wooow:applause: really wonderful work:thumbsup:

jdsb

02-10-2005, 09:09 PM

its a masterpiece...congrats

Rochr

02-12-2005, 04:37 PM

A beautiful scene. Extremely well constructed plus i love the idea.
Also nice to see other people from my old hometown here. :)

Hyperphuzion

02-12-2005, 09:22 PM

Amazing work. Love the detail on both the model and the background. Awesome textures. Great work.

Hi,
I'm a newbie in CGTalk. I like the lighting and materials used.
Congrats on winning the competition.:thumbsup:

goofslapper.com

02-15-2005, 03:59 PM

The model/texture is really nice. The very idea of the work is very cool as well but the thing that holds me in this image is your color and light.

watteville

02-16-2005, 10:49 AM

great work!!
why did you make the textures in photoshop. would it be possible to do so inside MAX?

dandan

02-16-2005, 02:47 PM

Congratulations to your work, i like it very much, it deserved the first place on the contest. I like your home page, maybe you shold add the link next time to one of your new work.
Így tovább! :applause:

aminuts

02-17-2005, 08:32 AM

Congratulations!!

So many things to love about this!

I absolutely love the concept!!

I love that you were curious enuf to research it and wonder how he got there or started on that train of thought.

I love that you were so enamoured by the idea you turned it into a work of art.

I love it even more that your tribute to the man of many talents, so closely resembles his work, that it could be, had he lived our times created such a machine on his computer to dazzle us and make us desire to create or build our own flying machine.

Thank you for this piece......I am grateful to cgtalk for this latest announcement of winners or I might have missed this great celebration of genious!!

conceptx

02-17-2005, 08:39 AM

I can't breath.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

motagaly

02-17-2005, 02:27 PM

Salamo Alykom

this is a master-mind work .. i love the textures alot and it seems to be very har domodel the spider ..

anyway .. great work man ...

keep it up.

Salam

shy-guy

02-17-2005, 03:22 PM

Two thumbs up! hope i could do some work like this one day..

kengsing

02-18-2005, 07:59 AM

surely, Davinci will feel very proud of you. :) really, i like it very much.

Jo_Anna

02-18-2005, 02:20 PM

I really like your model it displays a great amount of talent and skill.
Excellent lighting and color gamma!

JustinAlvarez

02-22-2005, 09:14 AM

that's amazing!

javierdl

02-23-2005, 12:51 PM

BGX, I have a question for you. But first let me say that this is for sure one of the most impressive and detailed CG artworks I have ever seen, to say the least.

I am presently doing my 1st UVs editing work for a human body. I am using max7, and although I've been told max7 has the easiest and most comprehensive UV editing tools I can't wait to be done with this phase :( But then when I see your work, WOW! I can't help but think about the UVs editing! So with this in mind, would you mind saying how long it took you to UV map it?
And maybe, for how long have you been UV mapping too.

Thanks in advance BGX :)

DPC

Moreira

02-23-2005, 06:36 PM

That´s is the most fascinated idea that I saw today in CG talk.

Iluminate idea.

bdixon

02-24-2005, 08:49 PM

Not much else to say, I definetly don't have and negative comments to make. Keep it up!

fluids

03-17-2005, 09:34 PM

nice lighting and texture. i love the shadow.

reven

03-17-2005, 09:42 PM

just as i was trying to figure out bat wings...i find this...which will help me to visualize the construction...your work is inspiring...will keep it in my folder as reference!

Lifthz

03-29-2005, 03:38 AM

I love the texturing and model. Superb lighting especially.

carlosvk

04-01-2005, 05:10 PM

Takes you back in time. Is there a chance to see more renders?

Carlos.

ghostfog13

02-07-2006, 07:05 PM

the lighting, the textures..... uh..... "renders" me speechless. great job!

blueferret

03-05-2006, 05:00 AM

I love that pastel look Davinci painted with light like that............

tddtk

03-09-2006, 10:33 AM

great job.five stars.

djrovers123

07-10-2006, 10:09 PM

:bounce: wow i like these consepts of Davinci's he shure was a mystiriuous man and i like whatevre which is related to mystries so what you have created is also in the list of what i like and you have actually made it came to life the creator must have had awarded you if he was alive great work man keep it up:thumbsup:

nadergholipour

02-10-2007, 04:57 AM

looks like it could realy fly!!!

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